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Two Maoist militants killed in Chhattisgarh
Calcutta News.Net
Sunday 15th April, 2007 (IANS)
Two Maoist militants were shot dead by security personnel in a pre-dawn strike Sunday in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district and arms and explosives recovered.
The incident took place in a forested stretch in Pollampalli locality of Dantewada, the worst Maoist-hit district in India.
'In a coordinated attack, Special Task Force (STF) personnel backed by district force and a team of Special Police Officers raided a rebel hideout Sunday in Dantewada and shot dead two militants,' a senior police officer told IANS by phone. The police recovered some foreign made pistols and explosives from the slain militants.
Chhattisgarh is one of the 13 states infested by Maoist violence. According to the Asian Centre for Human Rights, 749 people were killed in the country in Maoist violence in 2006 with 48 percent of them in Chhattisgarh.
In a recent report, ACHR claimed that till March this year, Chhattisgarh accounted for 101 killings of civilians and security personnel of a total of 144 casualties in Maoist violence.
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